Mancho Buttress

Mancho Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Манчо, ‘Rid Mancho’ \'rid 'man-cho\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1386 m^[1] on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Aitkenhead Glacier to the southwest and south.

The feature is named after Mancho Peak in Rila Mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location[]

Mancho Buttress is located at

63°55′20.8″S 58°51′02.6″W / 63.922444°S 58.850722°W / -63.922444; -58.850722Coordinates: 63°55′20.8″S 58°51′02.6″W / 63.922444°S 58.850722°W / -63.922444; -58.850722, which is 4.1 km northwest of Baley Nunatak, 11.2 km south of Golesh Bluff and 8.7 km southwest of Senokos Nunatak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps[]

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes[]

References[]

• Mancho Buttress. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

• Mancho Buttress. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.